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The Italian Match Job

From the archives: A match report from a game that was later associated with a gold heist which took place in Turin at the same time…

A Tale Of Two Keepers

The 1970′s. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of Clemence, it was the age of Shilton…

Footieleaks : The England Files

Since everybody else is jumping on the spoof Wikileaks bandwagon… We’ve “discovered” some previously unpublished football and music items which once you’ve read them might start a riot…

The Faux Internationals

I’ve only just noticed that there’s some international friendlies being played midweek. As usual they are a pointless waste of time that will mean nothing to anybody. Because the are not proper competitive qualifiers I’m calling them faux friendlies…

“Martin To Ossie And Bang”

Those are some lyrics to a song about the England team from 1970, do they ring a bell ? Chris needs your help. He’s got a song stuck in his head and it’s driving him mad. He’s emailed me and I’ve drawn a blank. He’s been on every forum to ask and no joy. Here’s [...]

I Was Saying Boo-Urns…

The first chance for the fans… which is a misnomer because of what they’ll be doing… to boo the England team in a few hours. Many of the hacks in their published articles asking what’s the point of booing, the players knew that their performance in South Africa was dismal…

Now We Know How It Feels

Unlike the one that was eventually given 44 years ago, this time there wasn’t a doubt. For a double irony I was hoping that England got a second and it would have finished 4-2. Some of the words used by the red tops (after they found a dictionary) to describe their performance were: Abject, dismal, [...]

Don’t Mention A Draw !

What am I going to do now…? I used up all the footballing clichés the other day with the balls to the wall post. I decided to bang them all in there because like many of you I was half expecting England to once again come out and shoot themselves in the foot. But a [...]

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